Word: corner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter's televised talk on the economy last Friday night, a home appliance commercial alerted Americans to "National Hoover Week." Carter's words underscored the sponsor's message. Unlike Hoover, however, this president is perhaps overly reconciled to his historic role. "Depression," Carter assures us. "is just around the corner...
...reverie didn't end in Long Beach as Louganis recalls his march into the Olympic stadium: "We turned the corner into the stadium filled with fans cheering U-S-A. I was all eyes--my eyes were bugging out of my head--I had never seen anything like it before...
Occasionally, patients circumvent this problem, more or less, by marrying. Married couples get to move into larger living quarters, full-sized apartments with kitchens and dining rooms. In contrast, Tony's simple square space with wash basin in one corner and bed in another hardly allow room for a lively jitterbug. Still he insists the dormitory is perfectly adequate for his needs, or at least sufficient enough to forestall his planning a wedding in the near future merely to raise his standard of living...
George Boudreau banged home the prettiest goal of the night, a wrist shot that was bending the twine in the left corner of the net before the St. John's netminder even noticed...
...pall of summer looms, surreal, as we endure winter in our cold corner of Cambridge. But summer's specter beckons, despite its distance, and we scramble to places like the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, embarking on the search--the search for The Job, The Experience, The Money, or The Diversion...